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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28
RAILROAD RACKET.

Over $500 ladies own stock in the
Santa Fe company and over 500 trusts
are represented.
Kansas papers are now prophesying
that 1.-TWO cents per mile will be the
passenger rate on all railroads in Kan
sas two years from now"
Over IL, 900 men are engaged in build
ing the Chicago, Kansas 81 Nebraska
railroad Rock Island) in Kansas and
Nebraska at the present time.
Work on the Southern Kansas extern
sion from Ottawa to southwestern Kan
sas via Burlington, is being pushed as
rapidly as material can bestowed to the
front. The material yards are located
at Ottawa. Yesterday the first install.
ment of 1000 cars of ties were re-
ceived.
In less than fifteen days Emporis
and Galveston will be linked together
with band of steel. The Southern
Kansas extension from Arkansas Cit,
is completed to the Canadian river ant
large number of men are now EN-
ployed bridging that stream, which i
147 miles out of Arkansas City. TIL
extension north from Gainesville is iai
complete to a point within fiftee
miles of the river. This road will Civ
Emporia new outlet by way of tn
coast.
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A Falling ScaROIding.

CHICAGO, April pa special from
Monticello, Illinois, says: A singular
and fatal accident in which two men
lost their lives occurred near Mansfield
yesterday afternoon. j. H. Burns, a
wealthy and highly respected farmer,
was engaged in painting the shingles
of his new barn which three men were
mailing down. All four were standing
on bracket scaffold twenty feet from
the ground, and a calf running at large
with rope around its neck managed to
wrap the rope several times around one
of the posts used to support the scat
folding. One of the workmen was
about to descend the ladder and liber-
ate the calf, when the animal jerked
the support from under one end of the
scaffOld, precipitating all four men to
the ground. Mr.. Burns fell with the
back of his head on the foundation
stone, crushing his skull and he died
instantly. Robert Newton was so badly
injured that there is no hope of his re-
covery. The other men were not seri-
ously hurt.
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Glass workers.

PTTTsBURG, Penn, April 25.-The
glass packers will again apply for adj
mission TO the Flint Glass Workers
Union at convention to be held by
that organization in July. Application
was made at the last convention, but
was refused because the packers in the
East were not organized. Organizers
were accordingly sent out, and the
whole trade, East and West, is now in
the Knights of Labor. A proposal to
leave that order and join the union is
expected to meet with strong resistance
be carried out. This change will carry
over to the Flint Glass Workers Union
between 400 and 800 men already
thoroughly organized.
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RlnadY Prize Firht.

ST. LOUIS, April PA Post-Dis-
patch extra gives an account of long
and bloody fight to the finish with kid
gloves, which took place yesterday
afternoon near small railroad station
about fifty miles north of this city
The mill was between Ed. Kelly, son
of the formerly somewhat famous Tom
Kelly of this city, and Dan DAILY, a
slugger of local note, for $3.50 side and
the gate money, which amounted
to about $500, the winner to take every
thing. The fight began about 1890.
From the first to the fiftytieth round
the fighting was of sickening charac-
ter, Kelly bleeding freely and almost
helplessly receiving Days blows. A
prominent sporting man offered Kelly s
seconds $500 to give the fight to DAILY,
but they refused. In round fifty the
fight was now nothing but plain brutal
ity and Kelly was simply a chopping
block. Rounds fifty-one, fifty-twO and
fifty-three were the same thing and
in fact all that followed. At the end
of the of the siXty-third Kelly agreed
to take 800 and let DAILY have the fight
and stake money and the receipts.
The battle was the longest
on record under the Mar
quis of Queensberry rules and
one of the most brutal ever seen. Kelly
is terribly used up, but DAILY is not in
jured much. Time of fight, three hours
and fifty-eight minutes, The mill was
witnessed by about sixty of the sport
ing fraternity and their friends of this
city, each one of whom paid SO to see
the finn
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A QUEER RESIDENT
A QUEER RESIDENT
A Russian NihiIist for Whom a Re-
ward Was Offered
Killed on an Island Near Fort Myers,
Florida.
Chicago Wholesale Dealers Kicking
for Mileage Tickets.
A Bloody Prize Fight Occurs Near
st. Louis.
A NihFIist Hermit.

CHICAGO, April 27.-The Times spe-
cial from Tampa, Florida, says: For
three or four years an island near Fort
Myers had a hermit-like resident, Gus
tav Chucar, a fugitive Russian Mill
list who made admissions which leave
no doubt that he was implicated in the
plot which ended in the murder of the
father of the present car. Chucar has
exhibited Russian papers in which a re-
ward was offered for his capture. Upon
his arrival in this state Chucar took
possession of the island with the
owners consent, built hut
and prevented all persons from land
ing. Last week he sold the island to
Mr.. Russell and yesterday the former
owner and RuSsell'S tenant went to the
island to persuade Chucar to leave it.
Upon learning their mission he threat
ened to kill any one who attempted to
dispossesS him. During the parleying
young Russell got between Chucar and
his weapons and snatched up rifle,
which was discharged, killing ChucaI
instantly. Russell then fed. They
claim that the shooting was accidental.
1t is rumored that papers making i'm
pOrtant nihilistic revelations are
among Chucar'S effects.
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trolls Is per cent, and has long stand
ing hostility to No. I26. At the in
stance of the Is per cent w. II. Bailey
of the general executive board recently
ordered strike in the factory because
the employers refused to reinstate Ger
tain hands who were obnoxious to the
IS per cent. Only forty-nine hands
utive board suspended the three local
assemblies of No. 126 for refusing to
obey Mr.. Bailey's order and go on a
strike against themselves.
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Lake Ahnrne,n TrInI.

NEW YORK, April 25-The Oyer and
Terminer court room was crowded this
morning with people assembled to see
the first act in the drama of the trial
of the king of boodlers, Jake Sharpe.
Judge Van Brunt was on the bench
sented the people. Sharpe occupied
the prisoners chair. Mr.. MARITIME
said that Sharpe with several others
had been indicted on twenty-ope
counts for bribery. He moved for a
trial on Monday next. Mr.. Stickney
asked the court to fix date for hear
ing of a motion by him to quash the
Indictment. He had no objection to
the setting down of the trial for May
18th. Judge Van Brunt fixed the 18th
of MAY for the trial and Friday next
was fixed for the hearing Of Mr.. Stick
news MOTION
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The GuIr Route.

PURCELL, Chickasaw Nation. April
yesterday at this point. distance
from Arkansas City, Kansas, of 1921
miles, and from Gainesville. Texas, 1O6
miles, the Arkansas City extension of
the Southern Kansas railway and the
Gulf. Colorado s. Santa Fe roads were
connected, a silver spike being driven
by representative of the Kansas, Sfis-
souri, & Texas. At the point of
inter section the work is a monument
to the energy and intrepid courage of
the great AtchiSOn, Topeka s. Santa
Fe road which thus obtains only 800
| miles of the new road through very
productive country and seaport foI
the shipment of the grain and stock OF
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Labor Agitation.

PITTsBURG, Penna., April 25-The
glass packers will again apply for adj
mission to the flint glass workers
union at the convention to be held by
that organization in July. Applica-
ton was made at the last convention
but was refused, because packers in
the east were not organized. Organi-
zers were accordingly sent out, and the
whole trade, east and west, is now in
the Knights of Labor. a proposal to
leave the order and join the union is
expected to meet with strong resistance
from other Knights of Labor, but it
will be carried out This change will
carry over to the flint glass workers
union, between 1 400 and 1 800 men.
who are already thoroughly organized
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PUBLIC Discomfort
WiE0Olsln Zinc Industries Crippled
by the New Rates.
Iowa Shippers Want Correct litter
probation Of the Law.
st. Louis Street Cars to be Run by
Electricity.
The Plan TO Capture Sherman Pre-
nouncsd a Huge Joke.
Stanley Pushing to the End of His
Journey in Africa.
DIseOnsent Among shIDuers,

CHICAGO, April PA special from
Des Moines, Iowa, says: Owing to a
widespread discomfort among shippers
over the alleged perversion of the inter-
state Jaw by railway companies in seek
ing to exact extortionate rates,
wholesale dealers, as well as stock and
grain shippers, have been in active cor
respondence with the end in view of
holding series of public meetings in
order to give forcible expression to the
public discomfort. These will be fol-
lowed up with request to Governor
Larrabee to convene the legislature in
extra session to pass the necessary law
state law in it's true spirit, instead of
taking technical advantage of isolated
clauses to render IL OdiOuS
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GIRL CRANks.
They Are as Much Of a Nuisance as
Cranky Men.

IheX Are MUCH Oh u NuRSaAACc dS
Cranky Men.
Henry Hazard in National Weekly.
Do you like a crank OF gIrlT don L.
| have a friend who is awfully cranky
in her ways, and at times she proves
perfect bore. She is one of the kind
who must have her way in everything
or else she won't play. This cranky
friend of mine is sort of literary gen
Jus: that is, she dabs in poetry to some
extent. writes sketches for the papers
now and then, and paints like the deuce.
She displays considerable originality i'll
all her work. and would some day make
herself name but for the fact that
she makes bad breaks at the wrong
time. and spoils everything she has al
ready accomplished. Did you ever bet
on a certain horse at a race that you
knew well could make the time If so in
clined. but just as the victory was in
her grasp she would break and allow
the second one in the race to carry off
the prize? I've been caught that way
more than once, and that's why L don't
like anything that makes breaks, and
there's nothing on earth that can equal
a cranky girl in making bad breaks.
Cranks are nuisance, no matter where
YOU find them. and girl crank is the
worst bore of all. She invariably wants
everything her own way. and if any
thing interferes the least bit with her
plans then she throws up the sponge,
becomes terribly cranky, and won t
play at all. / used to know of hen
club in this city some two years ago.
This club was the brain-child of a girl
crank who did the organizing and bus
mess of the club. No other girl had d
word to say. as the equal.
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This applies to the Northern Pacific,
Southern Pacific, Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe, and st. Louis and San Fran
cisco lines.
THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION.
The Interstate Commission is sit
ting with closed doors to-day, and will
leave here for the South Monday morn
ing. Secretary Mosely will remain in
charge of the bureau on Washington.
NO THREE PER CENTS THIS MONTH.
Secretary Fairchild has practically
decided to omit the usual monthly call
for three per cent bonds during the
present month. 1t is intimated in the
treasury department that the balance
of that loan outstanding, amounting to
about S20, 0O0, 900 viii remain undis-
turbed until after June 80 next, SO that
it may be applied to purposes of the
sinking fund during the next fiscal
year.
INVESTIGATING INCUBATION.
The President has directed the APP
pointment of Surgeon General Stom-
berg, United States Army, to investi-
gate the merits of incubation for the
prevention of yellow fever, as practiced
in Mexico and Brazil.
ENDICOTT AT BOSTON.
Secretary Endicott will leave Wash
ingtOn for Boston this afternoon, to be
absent for a week. During his absence
General Bennett will act as Secretary of
War
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VOL. 3o.--NO II.

vessels belonging to the international
association which were awaiting the
expedition. and the next day the expe-
dition anchored at Bona, the seat of
the general administration of the Con-
go Free State. Mr.. Stanley was conf
dent of the success of his enterprise and
hoped that by June he would be able to
render effective assistance to Emin
Bey. The Congo association have ar
ranged to victual the expedition from
Matilda to Leopoldville. From Stan
lev Pool Mr.. Stanley hoped to march
rapidly and to surprise the enemies
hedging in Emin Bey. The expedition
left Bona March q and arrived at
Matilda on the 22d and there disem-
barked, the river being unnavigaDle
thence to LeopoldYille on account OF
Livingstone falls. The expedition was
to proceed on foot for eighteen days
along the falls and expected to reach
Leopoldyille on April Is, where MI
Stanley was to be met by four steamers
belonging to the Congo state. English
and French mission mission bo,. stations IONS
been requested to place their two
steamers at his service. An alliance
with Tippoo Tab and the appointment
of him to the governorship of Stanley
Falls, is regarded by the expedition as
a master stroke by Mr.. Stanley, who
will be able to use TippOo Tabs great
influence to protect the expedition after
it leaves the Congo States stations.
BIsMARKs REGRETS.
PARIS, April 25.-It is stated that
Herr Won Leyden, German charge d
affaires, has informed NJ. Flourens,
minister of foreign affairs, that Prince
Bismarck regretted that the Lelpslc
court had ordered the arrest of Nj.
Schnaebels without consulting the
chancellor, for the offenSe concerning
which Prince Bismarck has reserved
his opinion.
OFFERS OF THE POPE.
ROME, April 26.-The pope yesterday
sent confidential notes to the French
and German governments, offering to
act as mediator in the Schnaebles af-
fair.
M'GLYNN SUSPENDED.
1t is reported that DIR. McGlynn will
be suspended from his paStorate func-
tons.
RUSsIA's FEARS.
ST.. PETERSBURG, April 26.-The gov
eminent has prevented the Russian ad-
mirers of General Boulanger from send
ing him a sword of honor, on the
ground that such an act would create
erroneous impressions in regard to
foreign minister, will remain in Office.
Resolution Coneurred In.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 25.-The
Senate resolution extending an invita-
ton to the American Forestry Congress
TO hold its session in 1888 at Springfield,
and rendering the use of the Assembly
Chamber for the Congress was con-
CURED in by the House to-day.
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CHICAGO, April 2S.-The members of
the Illinois Live Stock commission
think it will be necessary to slaughter
1000 more cattle in Cook county before
pleuro-pneumonia can be thoroughly
eradicated. The board have already
formally ordered the slaughter of a
considerably number of animals in the
infected districts. 1--WE will not stop, -
said one official last evening"" until we
have thoroughly cleaned the county Of
this disease"
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Cincinnati Laborer..

CINCINNATI, April 23.-AIl book pub
fishers have aeceded to the demands
OF compositors for 45cts per 1000 ems
but some have done so under protest
and viii attempt to have the matter
arbitrated.
Members of the Builders Exchange
have agreed to make nine hours day' 3
work and pay by hour. The price viii
be regulated by individual contracts
with the men.
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Parsons Blooms.

PARSONS, Kas., April ga large
mass meeting was held in the opera
house last evening to advise means
for advancing the business interests of
our city, and after speeches from "a
number of citizens and investors, five
thousand dollars was raised for adver-
Using means. Street railroad. college,
electric light and boring for gas are
among the enterprises which must be
pushed at once. A Chicago syndicate,
headed by Col. Geo. Barney, p. G..
Bond, L. r. Morton and others are
in the city and making large invest
ments. One hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars worth of property has
changed hands to-day.
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Gripping the Zlnc Trade.

GALENA, ILL.,, April 25.-One effect
of the interstate commerce bill has been
to advance freight on zinc ores to La
Sale about 81 per ton. 1t Is claimed
that this has put check on one of the
most important industries in this sec
ton, as zinc ore cannot proftably be
mined and shipped at that rate of
freight. The output of zinc ore in the
counties of Lafayette and Grant, in
Southern Wisconsin has averaged here
tOfOre twenty car loads per day.
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Prayer Granted.

BALTIMORE, Nd, April 25.-In the
United States Circuit Court to-day a
bill was filed asking for an injunction
and receiver for the Navassa Phos-
phate, body corporate of the state of
New York. The bill alleges that Wal
ter LamtOn, the President, absconded
after issuing large amounts of fraudu-
lent paper in the name of the companyt
Holders of such paper to the amour.
of nearly 5000, 900, have threatened to
issue attachments on the property of
the company in the jurisdiction. The
PRAYER was granted.
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LANCASTER, April 26.-The boy
cotted st. Louis stove- patterns were
received at the Keely stove works at
Columbia this morning, and the
mouIders were ordered to work on
them. All the moulders, fifty in num-
Der, Immediately dropped their tools
and left the foundry.
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ST.. LOUIS, April GA special from
Jefferson City to the Post Dispatch
says: Ex-Supreme Judge John w.
Henry and State Auditor Walker had
an alteration on the street between 8
and 10 O'Clock this morning in which
Judge Henry was shot twice in the
right arm and breast. and Walker Sc
verely cut in the head by Judge Hen
ly's cane. Both men are now in charge
of physicians. The origin of the trou.
ble il not given
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Must pay Up.

CHICAGO, April 27.-In suit for re-
covery against Isaac A. Rice. the APP
pelate court finds that while Mrs. Rice's
parents gave her money which was the
neuch us of her present means, in 1854
~ elet5ime of her marriage, and while
she increased it by judicious invest
ments, she received the nucleus and
increased it before the act of 1861 was
adopted by the Illinois legislature,
which permitted women to own prop
erty exempt from thir husbands debts.
Prior to that act whatever a wife
owned was the husbands also. by
| common law. the appellate court says.
the act of 1861 did not apply to the
money acquitted by the wife prior to the
act, and therefore her husbands cred.
itors can recover on her property.
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blew UP the Re.ervoir.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 26.-The gov
ernor this afternoon ordered the Toledo
company of the National Guards to the
scene Of the riot at the Paulding county
reservoir. The information in brief,
as outlined to the governor, is that 200
masked men overpOwered the guard at
the reservoir last night, blew up the
banks, saturated the locks and timber
with oil and burned them. The guards
were on duty at the instance of the
UOyernOr
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FemnIa COnnferfeitnra.

NEW YORK, April 25.-The United
States secret service officers late Satur-
day night arrested two women named
Mrs. Annie Kelly and Miss Ellen Bar
rett, who have been engaged in coun-
terfeiting silver coins for a number of
months. The officers caught the women
at their work and captured considerable
machinery and coin. The Kelly woman
is the wife of the notorious George
KolIv
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MIN Burned at huntington, X ns

BURLINGTON, Kas., April 24.-At
about O'Clock last evening fire broke
out in the city Touring mill owned and
operated by Peer, Horton 81 Miller.
The fire department responded prompt
ly and worked with a will, but despite
their efforts the fire gained rapid head
way, and in an hour after the alarm
the whole structure was in flames and
beyond control. The building, which
WAS substantial stone structure, is a
total loss, together with the machinery
and a considerable amount of flour.
The mill was valued at SAC, 900; insured
for S25, 900.
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CASUALTY AND CRIME
Two Disastrous ExPlOs'Ons-The Cy.
cIOne-BaId Knohbers-COunGerfe
Grreakad.

Two Disastrous Expl0sions-The Cy.
eIOne-BaId neutrality-suspicious.
Arrested.
RALEIGH, N. c., April 22-News
reached here to-day of a terrible acct
dent on board the river steamer Delta,
which plies on Black river, near Will
mington. This morning early. as the
steamer was near Rocky Point, Pender
county, her boiler exploded and dealt
destruction from one end of the craft
to the other. So great was. the force
of the explosion that the boiler was ac-
tually blown clear astern. 1t tore the
upper works all to pieces and made an
utter wreck of the boat. Much freight
was broken up or blown overheard.
Fireman Floyd was instantly killed
being struck by mass of iron. J. d.
Kerr, owner of the boat, and its cap
tain, had his leg broken and suffered
other injuries. Several other persons
are slightly hurt.
MORE OF THE CYCLONE.
KANSAS CITY, April pa Times
ScheIl City, No., special says: The
cyclone of Thursday night passed or
the outskirts of this place, doing great
damage to trees and fences. Several
houses were demolished. John D.
High was killed and his wife and CHILD
mortally hurt. Not a fragment Re
mains of their dwelling. The house OF
the Gibson family was blown away an6
one child suffered a broken arm. TIT
loss in this (Vernon) County is place.
at seventy thousand dollars. A
Taboryille, ST. Clair County, houses
were unroOfed and one man hurt.
STEAMER BURNED.
| WILMINGTON, Del, April 23.-Th
steamer "Capt. Miller" running be
tween Centreville, Nd, and Baltimor
was burned at her wharf at the forme
place this morning. The fire is sur
posed to have been of an incendiar
origin. The loss is covered by insul
ance.
SIXTEEN MORE INDICTMENTS.
| ST. LOUIS, April pa special dii
patch from Ozark, Mo-, SAYS: III
Grand Jury made another sweeping II
port this forenoon. returning sixtee
indictments for murder in the fin
degree for the killing of Chas. Greer
| Twelve parties named in this list Al
already indicted for the murder {
! VIM. Edens. The parties again
whom the last bills were found a
r David Walker, William Wake
James Matthews, Jno. Matthew
2 Wiley Matthews. c. o. Simmon, Ct
5 bert Apologize, William Graves, ],
l 1nman, Joe Hyde, Amos Jones. Lew
s | Davis, Peter Davis and Andre
Adams. james Matthews, the b
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TOPeka's Population.

TOPEKA, Kas., April 26.-Mr. Rodg-
ers, well known as the publisher of the
Topeka directory for a number of years
has just completed taking the census
of this city and finds the actual popula-
ton in the city and suburbs to be 3S, al.
His former reports have been very con-
sentative. The number of names of
heads of families are 1O,967, an in
crease in two years of 3,49l.